US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on July 8 for "Systems and methods for ray traced occlusion and reflections" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,210, issued on July 8, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for ray traced occlusion and reflections" was invented by Dustin Hulm (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for generating an occlusion value for a pixel. The method includes: selecting a pixel in an image of a scene; identifying at least one direction to cast a fixed-distance ray from a location on an object corresponding to the pixel based on an orientation of a surface of the object at the location; in response to determining that screen space occlusion data is available i...